I'm so happy to be sitting here writing to you!

Since I have purchased my tickets, my head has been swimming with ideas, plans, contacts, and daydreams.... but perhaps mostly daydreams!

Yes, I am a dreamer... and maybe you are too!  Perhaps that is why you are with me right now? I do hope so...dreaming can be so lovely ..

As I mentioned before, my main focus for this Blog right now is my up-coming European Tour!  I have my tickets...the dates are set, but now a certain process of planning is in order, even for a spontaneous spirit like me!

It all really started about 6 months ago. I began planting the "seeds". I shared openly about my dream and made more than few jaws drop at the boldness of it all... "Alone??",  "Do you have an Agent?", "Where will you stay?" and so on...

And, amazingly to me, when I explained that I was "just going" and had planned to "make it happen" I actually got a lot of support!  People would even start to offer me information, contacts, of what that they knew and had in Europe! Each conversation would flower...  Then, before the talk would get too far, they'd ask "Oh wow!! Can I come with you???" ...."Sure!" I would say...and I still do! Yes, come with me!! Why not?? Nothing is holding you back if you think about it truthfully.... and surely not me!

I am defining my contacts now. The seeds that I have scattered are starting to find places to root! And, just as in a garden, sometimes seeds take root under other plants, even in the cracks of a sidewalk! They can hide....so I must carefully transplant them so get enough sun and the proper nourishment. I have found too that the more I speak of this tour, I receive advise. I listen. This is important too. I want continue to learn more about what needs to be done. And, I will share that with you...

And, one last note before I close for today.  I do dream...yes, but a plan to play music throughout Europe, it is something I take seriously.  I must hone my craft...practice practice practice..with care.  I need to have the best of what I do to offer. I must say, this is something that should be the forefront of planning a tour,....to be ready to give it all you've got!  This is surely my plan...and it has already started....

Welcome!

I write to you this day, with a lovely sunshine streaming through my room, and view a outside of snow still spattered on the ground. It is left over from our first snow of the year, on November 27, (which happened to be my birthday too!).  

Now it is November 29, 2012, and as good as a time as any to start my blog... 

Thank you for joining me today...

As most people, we can find it  a challenge to define ourselves...but when given the opportunity to vent a bit we can pretty much go on and on ....because after all... we are still living, still growing, and still defining ourselves all over again.

The main reason I am starting this blog is the hopes to be of interest as to the life a musician and artist of today.  So many amazing and wonderful things have come to my life through my desire to make and perform music.  I have met countless wonderful people I would have never met otherwise.  I have traveled to towns near and  far (and got lost both near and far! ) to experience places I would have never seen had it not been for my engagements in music.  

This brings me to the greatest musical travel I am working on! My European Tour!!  
It is my inspiration to start this blog! 

You say, " European Tour? How can you, Andrea Carlson, do such a thing? I have never heard of you!!" or "Why is it you and not me?"  and perhaps there are more questions in your mind.  I will be answering all these and more!!

But, I also hope to encourage you to do the same thing!! Anything is possible! I have found that to be true over and over in my life.  We have a power to make things happen....and we can't wait for someone to make it for us! We must be steady in our journey...but enjoy each and every moment...because it is the journey after all is said and done that was the most fun and thrilling, and not the arrival. (And, just a quick comment...um, well, we never arrive....shhhh! it doesn't matter!)

So welcome!

I'll have more soon...

come and visit me again! I can't wait to share with you!!

with love,
andrea